In my opinion, however is Messiah’s wireless controllers — both for the NESand SNES are what make them stand out in my mind. I’m a big fan of the flexibility that wireless controllers give and its nice to see a company that hasn’t forgotten the need for older consoles.

Messiah’s latest controller is modelled after the NES’s Advantage Joystick and is also wireless. But here’s the bad part — the Generation NEX Arcade Stick is only for use with its own Generation NEX NES clone as opposed to working with the original NES console like their previous wireless controllers.

In addition to this siginificant issue, the NES isn’t exactly a console that has many arcade games like shooters and fighters that would benefit much from an arcade stick. Add this to the $60 price tag and I would be surprised if these sell very well. My friend, RedWolf over at Vintage Computing and Gaming seems to share many of these same thoughts and has many other great insights.